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Great and easy to set up and use
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of use of Aiven makes it great for a new person to learn and setup very fast.
What do you dislike about the product?
The billing is quite high and I did not get a chance to try it out before having to get a billed account.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The problem we had was the lack of a tool to create ad hoc databases to query on a one-off basis.
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Well made UI but lack of flexibility in access rights
What do you like best about the product?
It is very easy to create new clusters and enable connectivity with public cloud environments, also user management is quite simple which makes it easy to work with.
What do you dislike about the product?
I do not like that there is a lack of access rights for user management. We can either grant user read-only which gives him too little permissions or we can grant him developer, which gives him too much permissions in the Aiven Kafka Console. Since we are controlling everything via IaC, we cannot grant users anything more then read-only, but with that they cannot really "read" 99% of the stuff like see topics or schema content or on the other hand in INT or lower envirnomnets we cannot grant them to see passwords of users or check ACL's in the console. Granularity is missing badly :)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is giving us possibility to use it as central messaging BUS from multiple on-prem or public cloud systems and we can process them and forward them to systems as per requirement
Satisfied so far with technical side - UI can be better
What do you like best about the product?
Simplicity. Working with aiven is straightforward and doesn't include any underwater currents. The documentation is excellent.
What do you dislike about the product?
UI is not optimized for small screens (13 inch laptop), and generally, can be more "smooth". Takes some time to get used to it, and it still not very convenient.
Kafka connectors are not restarting if there were no configuration change, even when I press the button - some status icon (spinning wheel) would greatly contribute to useability.
UI for connectors can be better. (https://console.aiven.io/project/stg-eu/services/replicator/connectors)
There is no buttons to jump to configuration from there, probbaly will be much better if we have unified view for connector with "tasks" section etc.
Use case - I open multiple connectors for debugging with "ctrl +click" from the list menu so they will be separate windows.
Right now I have to copy paste link on list view and then click the button "edit configuration" separately on all of them -
suggestion - all the views to have URIs which could be accessed directly.
Kafka connectors are not restarting if there were no configuration change, even when I press the button - some status icon (spinning wheel) would greatly contribute to useability.
UI for connectors can be better. (https://console.aiven.io/project/stg-eu/services/replicator/connectors)
There is no buttons to jump to configuration from there, probbaly will be much better if we have unified view for connector with "tasks" section etc.
Use case - I open multiple connectors for debugging with "ctrl +click" from the list menu so they will be separate windows.
Right now I have to copy paste link on list view and then click the button "edit configuration" separately on all of them -
suggestion - all the views to have URIs which could be accessed directly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
CDC data capture scenarios
Still not in production, but super nice experience
What do you like best about the product?
Communication was super seamless. Every time we need support Aiven team is just a message away. For example, in the PoC phase, we were looking for some on-demand thing to help us with the journey, and the team was always there to support us.
What do you dislike about the product?
Probably documentation around complex problems would be interesting. For example, we want to connect two clouds with Aiven, and yes, there were some architecture diagrams provided, but I think when the use case is not so straightforward and Aiven has already solved it with previous clients, it's better to have detailed solution descriptions on the same.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Event sourcing and CDC with multiple clouds
Great use case for cloud migration from the big THREE, demoing this and using Aiven PG to do it!
What do you like best about the product?
Very easy to connect from any provider, always up, always available.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not much to add here, haven't felt any pain or resistence using the solution, fully supports various use cases.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Decopoloing from big three DBAAS solutions, competative pricing and comparible, if not better uptime.
Good offerings, very satisfied!
What do you like best about the product?
Easy of use, terraform provider, cli, ...
What do you dislike about the product?
Everything is ok. I have nothing what I dislike
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We run all our services in K8s, but we wanted to offload some more complex operations tasks from our dev ops team.
Greate and easy set up of Kafka environment
What do you like best about the product?
Straightforward setup, management and configuration. We also tried trial version for evaluation of our needs and the whole configuration took only few minutes, super easy
What do you dislike about the product?
In world where everything is in code including also whole infrastructure, I found only some community developed Terraform, which was also hard to set up and use for Aiven Kafka
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
At riskwolf we are insuring our client against internet outages of their infrastructure so we are processing multiple datasources of internet providers and also weather predictions to calculate price for given use case.
Happy customer
What do you like best about the product?
I like how easy it is to navigate the user interface, especially how easy it is to set up a local connection to a remote database.
What do you dislike about the product?
To be honest, there isn't anything about Aiven that I dislike!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed a reliable database provider for our PSQL databases. We had previously dealt with overly-complicated solutions of running on baremetal which just wasn't cutting it.
Really easy to navigate through the dashboard.
What do you like best about the product?
Really intuitive dashboard gives access to all the necessary features Kafka has to provide.
What do you dislike about the product?
There's no way to produce test messages to test consumers. Would be of great help if it could be build into the dashboard
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Messeging layer for event based architecture we are building for our services backend
A zero downtime fully managed service, what's not to like? :D
What do you like best about the product?
It's vendor-agnostic - I have been using AWS SQS, SNS and EventBridge for similar things before
What do you dislike about the product?
Managing topics and all the gritty details has a bit of a learning curve I guess
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The transition from "databases and cronjobs" to an event-driven architecture
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